I would take that Porsche immediately over the 9-4x. I don’t want a pre-2012 High Feature V6 regardless of what it comes in.

I think Subarus and the FWD Volvos suffer survivorship bias, i.e. owners are fond enough of them that a major several grand repair isn’t enough to take them off the road. After all, longevity is largely a condition of decent maintenance, unless it’s a Prius or ‘90s GM product.

Idk, I consider ‘modern’ to be ‘has an ECU and OBD II’ which makes up about half the list. Once you get to the GDI and touchscreen era all bets on durability go out the window.

Idk, they’ve always been a bit...odd. Certainly not as clean or cohesive as a Golf.

Sure, but you can’t claim that wide-open six lane roads in residential neighborhoods aren’t part of the problem. When you have to devote all your attention to driving lest you run over a moped you’re less likely to become numb to the activity and start multitasking.

Impreza is fugly too, but at least it’s simple and useful. To be fair Impreza hatches have always been fugly.

No one’s calling it safe, we’re just calling it like it is. I see that shit every day on the freeway (and off) because people here have been so conditioned to think that ‘nothing bad could ever happen to me’. I’m not saying U.S. roads should be as dense and chaotic as those in other countries, but our increasingly…

This. My decade-old Volvo even has the ability to turn off interior lights that are intentionally left on. I’ve never had to jump start it.

That does not look intuitive. It looks like you’re pulling off a piece of plastic trim that was never secured properly from the factory. If it were labeled ‘door release’ or painted a different color maybe it’d be intuitive.

The ‘playwall’ is by far the worst thing about modern Forza games. Having to do that every week in Horizon 5 for the new cars is basically the only reason I play the game. I guess that’s their intent, to get the player base consistently coming back, but I can’t even care about the main game (what little there is of…

As a transverse I6 Volvo driver, I feel compelled to mention the Antipodean BMC Landcrabs with the transverse E-Series (also used in high-end UK models and the following Princess).

Glad I are noted :)

Thanks for calling me a slur while pointing out the actual issues preventing them from being functional.

in real life, it looks better

Ah yes, I love that driverless taxis are so functional that they sit in the middle of the road and won’t move for 15 minutes, that’s definitely my favorite part of any cab ride.

I just don’t think the $5k price premium over the Civic matters that much. BMW charges $3k for heated seats and junk, then $1k for badges and a body kit, so for Honda to offer a whole different bodyshell with alternative looks and marginally nicer dealership experience et. al. doesn’t seem all that unreasonable to…

Ford/PSA’s Lion V6 diesel. I think this video should suffice as evidence...

I think those were a Mitsubishi-derived design and yeah, they are butch as hell for a cut-price 2000s Korean car. I’m guessing the mid-2010s GDI V6s suffer issues for much the same reason the GDI 4-bangers do.

Yeah, because that Benz is hideous. The Toyota ain’t much better, but at least it doesn’t look like a bloated grinning whale.